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An essential thread uniting recent winning campaigns is that the top union officers were all directly elected by the members, a basic democratic right denied to many union members in the United States.

2023 saw some of the biggest, hardest-fought labor disputes in recent decades

They wrote an open letter calling his behavior on social media a source of embarrassment.

The time has come for labor to speak out against war. We cannot become inured to the barbarism our species resorts to when conflicts arise. As women, workers, veterans and citizens of the world, we must demand a peaceful world, and work to create it

The creation of green jobs in agriculture requires state action to protect natural resources, encouraging sustainable practices to prevent pollution, while at the same time ensuring compliance with labour legislation and workers’ fundamental rights.

For labor unions across the Nordics — a region encompassing Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland — the tussle with Tesla and Elon Musk, a vocal critic of unions, is existential.

Human resources associations & union busting law firms keep close track of changes to labor & employment law. While mostly anti-union, these organizations are good sources of information like this list of laws going into effect in 2024.

Last week, hundreds of health workers shut down the London HQ of Palantir to protest a tech company profiting off of Israel’s bloody war on Gaza.

Strikes by autoworkers, actors and writers brought wins in 2023, but analysts worry labor laws could undo progress. Worker advocates say what is badly needed is for other unions, helped by the AFL-CIO, also to launch big, ambitious organizing drives.

2023 was an explosive year for worker organizing. A decades-in-the-making reform victory at the UAW paved the way for historic contract victories at the Big Three automakers. LA teachers and service workers united around shared community demands.